• The Parthian language, also known as Arsacid Pahlavi and Pahlawānīg, is an extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language once spoken in Parthia, a region...
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    The Parthian Empire (/ˈpɑːrθiən/), also known as the Arsacid Empire (/ˈɑːrsəsɪd/), was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient...
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    Parthia (redirect from Parthians)
    Parthia, from Old Persian Parthava, which was the Parthian language self-designator signifying "of the Parthians" who were an Iranian people. In context to its...
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    non-Southwestern languages, rather than a genetic group. The languages are as follows: Northwest: Median†, etc. Southwest: Old Persian†, etc. Northwest: Parthian†, etc...
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  • north-eastern of Greater Iran Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD) Parthian language, a now-extinct Middle Iranian language Parthian shot, an archery skill famously...
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    which was the homeland of the Parthians, was Persianized under the Sasanians. Dari Persian thus supplanted Parthian language, which by the end of the Sasanian...
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    which were then also rendered in inscriptional Parthian. The Parthian language was a Middle Iranian language of Parthia proper, a region in the north-western...
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    characters in this article correctly. Inscriptional Parthian was a script used to write the Parthian language, the majority of the text found were from clay...
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  • descend from any known Middle Iranian languages, such as Middle Persian or Parthian, or from Old Iranian languages, such as Avestan or Old Persian. Zaza...
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    Persian) and ary- (Parthian), both deriving from Proto-Iranian language *arya- (meaning "Aryan", i.e. "of the Iranians"). In the Iranic languages spoken on the...
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    Manichaeism (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    practiced in China around Cao'an, founded in the 3rd century CE by the Parthian prophet Mani (216–274 CE), in the Sasanian Empire. Manichaeism teaches...
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    Name of Iran (category Articles containing Avestan-language text)
    king's Middle Persian appellation is ardašīr šāhān šāh ērān in the Parthian language inscription that accompanies the Middle Persian one. The king is also...
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    Arya (Iran) (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, airiia; Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹, ariyaʰ; Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭫‎, er; Parthian: 𐭀𐭓𐭉‎, ary; Bactrian: αρια, aria) was the ethnonym used by Iranians...
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    Persians (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    not yet have a political import. The Parthian language, which was used as an official language of the Parthian Empire, left influences on Persian, as...
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    Sasanian Empire (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    population. Parthian was spoken in Khorasan along with other Iranian dialects and languages, while the Sogdian, Bactrian and Khwarazmian languages were spoken...
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    Kushan Empire (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    culture DONGHU Tashtyk Kokel KANGJU Khotan Dinlings Sarmatians ROMAN EMPIRE PARTHIAN EMPIRE KUSHAN EMPIRE SATAVA- HANAS FUNAN HAN DYNASTY XIONGNU Rosenfield...
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    Pahlavi scripts, which were used by several Middle Iranian languages, including Parthian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, and Khwarezmian. Biblical Aramaic...
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    Iran (word) (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    forms: ariya in Old Persian, airya in Avestan, ariao in Bactrian, ary in Parthian and ēr in Middle Persian. The word ērān is first attested in the inscriptions...
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    Νίσαιον; Turkmen: Nusaý; also Parthaunisa) was an ancient settlement of the Parthians, located near the Bagyr neighborhood of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 18 km...
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    Pahla (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    of poems in the Fahlawi or Pahlawi language, as well as the only remaining example of Parthian language or Parthian dialects with a directly transmitted...
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    Kingdom of Iberia (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    Greco-Roman geography, Iberia (Ancient Greek: Ἰβηρία Iberia; Latin: Hiberia; Parthian: wurğān; Middle Persian: wiručān) was an exonym for the Georgian kingdom...
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    Avars (Caucasus) (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    the Middle Persian language, the word Aβarag, meaning "superior" can also be translated as "Aβarian", "Khurasanian", and "Parthian" as seen, for example...
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    Phraates V (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    Phraates V (Parthian: 𐭐𐭓𐭇𐭕 Frahāt), also known by the diminutive version of his name, Phraataces (also spelled Phraatakes), was the King of Kings of...
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    Vologases I of Parthia (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    Vologases I (Parthian: 𐭅𐭋𐭂𐭔 Walagash) was the King of Kings of the Parthian Empire from 51 to 78. He was the son and successor of Vonones II (r. 51)...
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    Artabanus I of Parthia (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    Artabanus I (Parthian: 𐭍𐭐𐭕𐭓 Ardawān), incorrectly known in older scholarship as Artabanus II, was king of the Parthian Empire, ruling briefly from...
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    Arsaces I of Parthia (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    Arsaces I (/ˈɑːrsəsiːz/; from Ancient Greek: Ἀρσάκης; in Parthian: 𐭀𐭓𐭔𐭊‎, romanized: Aršak) was the first king of Parthia, ruling from 247 BC to 217...
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    Artabanus IV of Parthia (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    known as Ardavan IV (Parthian: 𐭓𐭕𐭐𐭍), incorrectly known in older scholarship as Artabanus V, was the last ruler of the Parthian Empire from c. 213 to...
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    Arsaces II of Parthia (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    Arsaces II (/ˈɑːrsəsiːz/; from Ancient Greek: Ἀρσάκης; in Parthian: 𐭀𐭓𐭔𐭊 Aršak, Persian: اشک Ašk), was the Arsacid king of Parthia from 217 BC to 191...
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    Vologases IV (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    Vologases IV (Parthian: 𐭅𐭋𐭂𐭔 Walagash) was King of Kings of the Parthian Empire from 147 to 191. He was the son of Mithridates V (r. 129–140). Vologases...
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  • *H₂n̥gʷʰis (category Articles containing Parthian-language text)
    romanized: aži → Avestan: 𐬀𐬲𐬌⸱𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬁𐬐𐬀, romanized: aži.dahāka Parthian: 𐫀𐫋𐫅𐫍𐫀𐫃, romanized: ažδahāg (borrowing) Persian: اژدها, romanized: aždahā...
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